"Father, give us a word." The young men sat in the cell of the holy elder and longed to hear his wisdom for their lives. As the elder spoke, the…
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge." Dante, poet and author of the Divine Comedy. Origins consumes much of the…
The word gets thrown around a lot today. "Love" seems to be everybody's goal, and it seems to have been this way forever. I'm reading a great book now called…
Real inspiration isn't easy! In fact, I've become suspicious of the real lasting power of inspiration based on mere sentiment or even "good intentions." It just always seems to be…
"We are of one mind about this." I heard his words and I understood each word and it's meaning, but I had never heard this put this way before -…
An Introduction to Original Christianity!
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The demographics don't lie. We are living in a time when it is hard to stay faithful to the Orthodox Faith.…
The latest statistics from the Archdiocese says that upwards of 80% of all marriages performed in the Orthodox Churches in America are between an Orthodox Christian and a non-Orthodox Christian.…
The word "asceticism" is something of a mystery to our modern way of life. We have lived with such plenty and such amazing comfort and ease for so long that…
Ever wonder how words lose their meaning? I have. I think of how society redefines things to suit their current thinking. But this isn't a new phenomena at all. We…
Listen to this quote from St. Peter of Damaskos: “Patient endurance kills the despair that kills the soul; it teaches the soul to take comfort and not to grow listless in…